Close an application using VBScript

Question

I was trying to open and close an application. I tried like this:

Dim App1 
Set App1 = CreateObject(\"WScript.Shell\")
App1.Run(\"firefox\")
App1.Quit
         


        

Answer 1

If you want to be able to terminate a process that way you need to use the Exec method instead of the Run method.

Set ff = CreateObject("WScript.Shell").Exec("firefox")
'you do stuff
ff.Terminate